Super PACs and Stephen Colbert

[Conan71]

I wonder how fundraising is going at NewtPac and JohnEdwardsPAC...

[patric]

Since forming his PAC, he has broadcast perhaps hundreds of hours of the Colbert Report, and Comedy Central has not charged him a dime for that time.  On the contrary, they have paid him, under his contract, for that time.  So if say a candidate were to request "Equal Time," within "forty-five days preceding the date of a primary or primary runoff election" the network would be required to provide that time at the same rate, or in this case pay!

Anyone else running for "President of the United States of South Carolina" could presumably ask for time, but...